Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press, he thumbed his nose at U. S. journalism. Last week, in The Catholic Crisis (Messner, $3), Author Seldes uttered some hoarse Bronx cheers at the Roman Catholic Church. His thesis is that the Church has dallied too long with Fascism, and his book suggests that his way of fixing things would be to have someone like Oswald Garrison Villard for Pope. He devotes more than 300 pages to accusing Catholic churchmen and laymen of all manner of misdeeds-pressure against the press and the cinema, devious activities in politics, assaults on civil liberties-which, though in part damaging...
...lefts, he no longer dares to get into the ring for fear of hurting his hands. Today, Primrose is generally considered the world's finest viola player. No longer does he have to play one-night stands, traipsing through snowdrifts to theatres and hotels in out-of-the-way Canadian and Midwestern towns. He reaches a bigger audience in one concert than he could in 15 years of barnstorming, and without any more discomfort than it takes to step from a subway into a cozy broadcasting studio. "It makes you feel like an orchid," says William Primrose...
Mapmaker Harrison thinks that most mapmakers are: 1) too tradition-bound, 2) lacking in color sense. He grades the type on his own maps to help readers, sprays his colors on with an airbrush -in much the same way and for the same reason that George Petty sprays his voluptuous ladies...
Significance. When prosecution loomed, Ford and Chrysler accepted consent decrees, agreeing not to compel dealers to use their finance companies, provided that General Motors stood trial and lost. General Motors, carrying the ball for the big three, expects to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The final decision in G. M.'s case will determine whether the 370-odd independent U. S. finance companies can cut themselves in on the profitable installment business of the motor industry...
...thing for G.E. to have Gerard Swope for president, because though he concentrated on operations, he went about a good deal, was on any number of boards and committees in Washington. To become such public figures G.E.'s new heads, unknown to the public, will have a long way...